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DANCEMEDITATION
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May Day-ly Practice 9
Made a good discovery today. After Shadow & Light, I fell into work with the Centerline. (Inspired by Marjie.) The idea was so simple––move with focus on the centerline from floor to the top of the head.
As I moved, I felt my fascia wrapping the insides of my legs. I progressed up my [...]
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May Day-ly Practice 8
“Flesh is the only destiny.”
––Kim Edwards, from The Secrets of the Fire King
What does Edwards mean? She goes on to poetically detail the protagonist watching her autocratic father rot into death before her eyes and under her care. And still I don’t understand the opening line. But I agree in my heart. Flesh is the [...]
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May Day-ly Practice 7
Your dance will heal you.
––from my mentor, Phoebe Neville
It was utterly gloomy here this morning. When I first woke, in my leaden lower body I remembered Grandmother. She lurched slightly as she walked, her bowed legs, which eventually gave at the knees, wrapped in a kilt or wool skirt. She loved to walk in the [...]
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May Day-ly Practice 6
Shadow & Light again, only this time I cast the front of my body––her ventral plane––into shadow and illuminate the back, the dorsal plane.
She is iridescent, as if covered with fine rain-bowing scales. A reptile. An upright fish. I feel how I was once a fish, my belly mostly facing the pull of gravity while [...]
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May Day-ly Practice 5
I’ve been thinking about doing intensive work at Kripalu in comparison to doing it at the Summer Movement Monastery. Kripalu is such a cushy place, wonderfully supportive, with all the cooking and cleaning being done for us. The day-to-day living never brings people into conflict. It is by nature a much easier place to [...]
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